AwardKit vs Awards Flow

AwardKit manages award programs, recognition initiatives, and judged competitions, from collecting entries through judging and publishing results. Organizers can build forms with conditional questions, autosave, save-and-resume, and image, PDF, and video uploads. Judges score through personalized links without accounts, using configurable weighted criteria on any device. Programs can use judge-only scoring, audience voting, or both. AwardKit calculates scores and supports winner assignment, public results, and CSV exports with rankings and judge feedback. Entry fees use Stripe Connect, with funds paid directly to the organization’s Stripe account and no AwardKit commission. The web service states that traffic uses HTTPS/TLS, data is encrypted at rest, passwords are hashed, and two-factor authentication is available. Card entry happens through Stripe-hosted Checkout; AwardKit says it does not see or store full card numbers. A free plan and free trial are available. The paid AwardKit plan is $1,995 a year, billed annually, with unlimited programs, entries, judges, audience voters, and team members. Organizations with 500 or more entries are invited to contact AwardKit.

Awards Flow is an award management platform for administering programs from applications and judging through payments, compliance, and winner recognition. It lists awards, grants, hackathons, scholarships, pitch competitions, film contests, and fellowships among its supported program types. Organizers can set weighted evaluation criteria, manage multiple judging rounds, assign judges, and enable public voting with fraud detection. AI tools include applicant anonymization, application summaries, duplicate detection, judge matching, and non-binding scoring assistance; these are add-ons on Starter and included with Professional and Enterprise. Grant features include e-signature agreements, fund pools, scheduled disbursements, a grantee portal, and post-award reporting. Listed integrations include HubSpot, Mailchimp, Zoho CRM, and Zoho Invoice, with REST API access and webhooks varying by plan. Automation includes deadline reminders at 28, 21, 12, and 7 days, payment reminders, abandoned-cart recovery, and rating-tier recalculation. It also lists security controls and tools for GDPR, CCPA, and Australian Privacy Principles compliance. Awards Flow is available on Android, iOS, and web, with an installable, branded Progressive Web App.